China’s bullet trains facilitate market integration and mitigate the cost of megacity growth

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Suzhou Station











(photos are from szzsj47 and baidu)

 

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Suzhou Station











(photos are from szzsj47 and baidu)

I love the architecture...

 

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The formal opening date of the Nanchang-Changsha segment of the Hangzhou-Changsha HSR，which forms part of the Shanghai-Kunming Dedicated Passenger Line，has been brought forward to 30.08.2014， one month earlier than scheduled：

南昌至长沙高铁将提前通车 25日试运行8月通车

I will try it next week.

 

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I will try it next week.

Great。It is gonna be a fast and smooth ride。Enjoy the journey！。

Chinese EMUs selling like hot cakes

July 21

CSR made inter-city trains put into operation in Argentina

The deal includes 709 train units and is worth $1 billion.

by 高铁见闻

 

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Some great pictures of Shenzhen North

(by pansori and weibo.com/airphoto and baidu)

 

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The Min-Gan segment of Hefei-Fuzhou HSR to open in June 2015：

 

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July 23

Hangzhou-Changsha HSR Zhejiang section on joint testing

Hangzhou-Changsha HSR：
Length: 933km
Speed: 350km/h
Open: December 2014







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Chengdu-Chongqing HSR starts track laying，line operational in June 2015：

Running at design speed of 300-350km/h，bullet trains will cut travel time between these two great citites to under 1 hour。

 

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Shanghai Disneyland to Benefit From High Speed Train Line

9:46 PM PST 07/30/2014 by Abid Rahman

David Roark/Disney Parks/Getty Images - Shanghai Disneyland opens at the end of 2015.

The $5.5 billion theme park and holiday resort project will be integrated into city's transport system with proposals for a "Disney Express" train services also likely to get the go-ahead.

A high speed rail line connecting Shanghai Disney Resort with the city is increasingly likely to be builtreported the Shanghai Daily last Saturday.

The paper says that blueprints issues by the Shanghai Railway Bureau show plans to build a new station in the Pudong New Area, a site close to the construction site of the prospective Disneyland theme park and Disney Resort.

The Shanghai city plans are in addition to previously released planned rail services from other Chinese cities all feeding into a prospective Shanghai Disney Resort terminus. Shanghai Railway Bureau officials added they were working with 17 counterpart agencies around the country to create “Disney Express” services linking the resort with cities.

The Shanghai Disney Resort, the largest foreign investment project in China ever, will be completed in two phases, with the theme park Shanghai Disneyland scheduled to open at the end of 2015 and two additional theme parks and a resort to follow.

In April, Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger announced an additional $800 million of investmentinto Shanghai Disneyland, bringing the total investment to $5.5 billion.


Shanghai Disneyland to Benefit From High Speed Train Line

 

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100m yuan per km to build high-speed train in Guizhou

(16m USD per km, still bloody cheap compared with the average cost of 33m USD per km on flatland in the so-called developed countries)

By Li Jun (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-07-31 18:03

Testing phase of Guiyang-Guilin railway has been delayed to the end of this August, according to Guizhou-Guangzhou high-speed railway construction headquarters on Wednesday.

Guiyang-Guilin railway is one segment of Guizhou-Guangzhou high-speed rail. Its testing time may be delayed to around August 25 because there are not enough trains for comprehensive test, but it will not affect the opening time of the whole railway at the end of this year.

Guizhou-Guangzhou high-speed project stretches 857 km, with the total investment of 91.81 billion yuan ($14.8 billion). It starts from Guiyang North Station, running through 21 stations in total, with Guangzhou as its main terminal.

The length of railway in Guizhou province is 301 km and total cost will be 30.5 billion yuan. Due to its complex topography and too many tunnels and bridges in Guizhou, which pose a great challenge to build the high-speed rail, the construction cost amounts to 100 million per km.

"The railway is a big interlocking machine involving various departments. If one step is not ready, the whole system cannot be implemented," said the person in charge of Guizhou-Guangzhou railway construction headquarters.

The high-speed railway construction work now runs smoothly and it is expected to be put into use at the end of this year, he added.

According to provincial railway construction office, Guizhou has completed railway construction investment of 15.4 billion yuan in the first half of this year, with year-on-year growth of 30.5 percent.

Other than Guizhou-Guangzhou railway, high-speed rails from Guiyang to other places are also under construction and it is expected that Guiyang-Changsha railway will be put in use in May next year, with the journey taking only two hours.

100m yuan per km to build high-speed train in Guizhou - Business - Chinadaily.com.cn

 

[Kyle Sun]

I hate HSR.

There are less and less low speed trains which i need to take.

 

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Would be noisy living in those apartments

 

[Edison Chen]

Would be noisy living in those apartments

And convenient as well.